Make a Baby Bean Stitch Coffee Cup Sleeve

If you are looking for stashbuster projects you can crochet with your leftover medium weight yarn, then this post is for you!

I recently ordered a few balls of Premier Yarns Sweet Roll from our Canadian Mary Maxim Store online and I am in love with it. The colors are vibrant and the yarn is firm but so soft. It is a pleasure to crochet with this yarn and although it feels soft to the touch it has fantastic stitch definition. After making my main projects (hats patterns coming soon!), I had a bit left over from two of the balls so I started playing around with the baby bean stitch.

Have you tried the baby bean stitch yet? I love the finished woven look and the simple texture this easy to crochet stitch creates. I have created 3 quick projects for you to try using this stitch. This is the first of the three designs. I will add the links to the others as soon as they are all posted on the blog.

The baby bean stitch is created using single crochet cluster stitches. The stitch pattern is simple and easy to remember.

Difficulty Level

Finished Size

Gauge

You can substitute any yarn and hook for this stitch pattern – just remember when you substitute if your gauge is different, the finished size of your project will also be different.

Abbreviations

US Terminology used

ch – chain ch1sp – chain 1 space R – row rem – remaining rep – repeat sc – single crochet sc2tog-cl – single crochet 2 together cluster stitch (all worked in one stitch or space) sk – skip st/sts – stitch/stitches * – Repeat the instructions between the asterisks the number of times indicated. This repeat will contain of multiple instructions. () – Repeat the instructions between the parentheses the number of times indicated. [] – at the end of the row – the total number of stitches

Special Stitches

Baby Bean Stitch

Insert your hook into the specified stitch (or stitch space) yarn over and pull up one loop (2 loops on the hook), yarn over the hook and insert your hook into the same specified stitch (or stitch space), yarn over and pull up one loop (4 loops on the hook). Yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on the hook to complete the baby bean stitch.

Helpful Tutorials

Helpful Video Tutorials

Notes

Please be sure to read the Baby Bean Stitch notes above in Special Stitches because the sc2tog cluster is not worked as you would expect it to be worked! There is one extra yarn over in there to make it easy to crochet! Please see the Special Stitches Section.

This project is worked back-and-forth in rows before being seamed using a whipstitch, into the final coffee cup cozy.

If you are using a yarn cake in multiple colors I recommend leaving a yarn tail at the beginning to let you seam both ends in the same color of yarn as the color which you crocheted in. For example for my sample I left a 4 inch tail before beginning so I could seam my first 2 rows using red and then the remainder was seamed using yellow (the tail I left at the end of the project).

Baby Bean Stitch Coffee Cup Sleeve Pattern Instructions

R1: Ch 37, beg in the 3rd st from the hook and work sc2tog-cl, *Ch 1, sk 1 ch, sc2tog-cl** in the next ch.** Rep from * to ** across. Turn. [18 sc2tog-cl]

R2: Sk all ch1sp across. Ch 2, sc2tog-cl in the top of the next sc2tog-cl. *Ch 1, sc2tog-cl** in the top of the next sc2tog-cl. Rep from * to ** in the top of each sc2tog-cl across. Turn. [18 sc2tog-cl]

R3-R11: Rep R2. Finish off leaving a 5 inch tail of yarn.

Finishing

Using your yarn tail, whip stitch the two side edges of the cup cozy together. Finish off and weave in ends.

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